Lost Lands: Stories about the Sorceress, the Prince and the Minotaur Collector's Edition

Lost Lands: Stories about the Sorceress, the Prince and the Minotaur Collector's Edition takes a slightly different approach to the familiar fantasy adventure formula by exploring several tales connected to the history of the Lost Lands. Developed and published by FIVE-BN GAMES, the game retains the point-and-click exploration, hidden-object challenges, inventory puzzles, and elaborate fantasy environments associated with the series while using multiple characters to broaden its mythology. Instead of making Susan Shepard the center of every major event, the story examines people and incidents that existed beyond her adventures. The narrative is framed through Susan's collection of stories, introducing three characters whose journeys reveal another side of the Lost Lands. Their adventures lead into a region between the legendary tower and an ancient city, providing an opportunity to explore places and historical events that previously received little attention. One of the more intriguing elements involves learning about the firstcomer, a mysterious individual who reached the Lost Lands before Susan. This helps give the story a genuine purpose within the larger series rather than ma…

I wouldn't recommend this even on a discount. Such a sad thing for what I consider to be the very best series in this genre. There are some new things that I did like, but I won't even mention them, because the bad aspects greatly outweigh them. - The dialogue is terrible. It's not just bad translation, which I see sometimes and doesn't bother me. The minotaur keeps saying, "No questions!" and it makes no logical sense. The dialogue in general doesn't make sense sometimes. Maybe AI generated and nobody proof-read it, I don't know. I also play these in Spanish (whenever available), so the voice is English and text is in Spanish and it was just as bad in either language. - I had to use the Hint button way too often because I was just confused. - Although the mini-games weren't just the same ol', same ol' and were creative (which is a positive), often they were too tedious for my tastes. Some people might like that, but I suspect the majority of people would be annoyed. - There were not nearly enough hidden object scenes for a series that has always had many of them. It was more running around being confused than the super enjoyable aspect of finding lots of stuff, which is the main…

This entry killed my excitement for Lost Lands 12 While my time with with Five-BN's games is rather short, I was an avid fan, playing through all of the Lost Lands and Legendary Tales games and generally loving them. In recent times, however, they've succumbed to sloppifying their work and it's a small tragedy. That compounds other weaknesses in what might be the weakest entry in the Lost Lands series. Startting from the slop itself, it is most visible in every cutscene where the characters are all uncanny with that telltale feel of something that's "high resolution" but also generally horrible. People's facial features mutate scene by scene (some times in the same scene), their expressions almost never really match their voices because the slop video is always screaming dramatically and at every frame you're just being told that there was no care put into this, "go do something else". It's insulting throughout (and it's not even as bad as Legendary Tales 5, that was an otherwise epic series finale that got murdered by slop). When I started playing Five-BN's games, having come in through tricky doors and then just.. buying all Lost Lands titles (while playing Legendary Tales on …

3 games in one - one after the others - excellent value, excellent stories

I like the attention to detail in the landscaping

Wonderful game! Very imaginative stories and puzzles! Love seeing Susan.